Corn-planter



H. UPJOHN.

Corn Planter.

No; 44,355. Pat ented Sept. 20, 1864.

Inventor,

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UNITED STATES PATENT UFFIQEQ HENRY UPJOHN, OF HIGHLAND, MICHIGAN.

CORN-PLANTER.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY UPJonN, of Richland, in the county ofKalamazoo and State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovement in Corn-Planters; and I do hereby declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had tothe accompan yingdrawings, and to the letters of reference markedthereon, in which Figure 1 is a plan of the machine. Fig. 2 is avertical section of hopper through the line as a. Fig. 3 is a side view.

My invention and improvement consist in the combination of the jointedbeam on which the hoppers are placed with the jointed rods or slides foroperating the seeding apparatus,

as hereinafter to be more fully set forth.

a a is a beam or scantling twelve feet long, with four shoes, I) b b b,bolted on crosswise four feet apart. Said beam is jointed, d (I, justoutside of the two inside shoes, so that the outer shoes may adaptthemselves to the inequalities of the ground. The front ends of theshoes are rounded up to a point, I), in the form of a runner, so as topass readily over the ground. There is a piece about two inches wide orthick sawed out of the back part of the shoes or runners, immediatelybeneath and behind the hoppers, to receive the dischargingtube. Thereare four hoppers attached to' the back part of the beam, directly overeach shoe, for containing the corn. The bottom of these hoppers isformed by the slides f ff f. In that part of the slides which comesinside of the hoppers there is a hole or chamber, 0, Fig. 2,

' for dropping the corn, said hole being provided with a gage forregulating the number of kernels to be dropped. The frame 9, whichcarries the wheel t, is fastened to the beam at by means of the clevisor band h h. The wheel i is eight feet in circumference, having fourcams, j j, fastened on opposite spokes in such a way as to move thelever it forward and back twice in one revolution,'thus making the hillsfour feet apart. The shaft l l, with the arms in on m m, revolves withthe wheel i, said arms having a piece of board, it, eight inches squarefirmly secured to each end, as shown in Fig. 1. The corn, after beingdropped through the shoes, is covered by means of two pieces or platesof iron,pp, attached to the back part of each shoe. Said plates are setflaring, so as to fill the track made by the shoes. The rods q q aredesigned to throw the lever it out of gear, and thus prevent the slidesfrom operating while moving the machine from place to place. Lever 7c isoperated upon by the wheel t to move the slides ffff, to which it isattached at 8, said slides being connected by the rods t t. The ends ofthe rods tt which come opposite the joints d d of the beam on arefastened to the slides ff with a joint or hinge, so that the outerrunners, b b, with their hoppers 3 y and their slides ff, may movefreely up and down in passing over any inequality of surface withoutstraining the machine.

Operation: The horses are attached to the tongue R. The driver followsthe frame 9. As the wheel i revolves the cams j j move thelever 7a,which operates the slides ffff. The motion of the slides drops the cornthrough the opening 0 into the track made by the shoes I) b b Z1, whereit is covered by the coverersp 1) pp. ,The shaft l l, with the arms m mm m, revolves with the wheel t, which causes the pressers a n n n tocome down upon the hill, pressing down the earth and at the same timemarking the hill, so that the driver knows exactly where to set in atthe end of the field.

This machine plants four rows of corn while once crossing the fieldwithout the ground being marked off, and requires but one man and a teamto operate it. 7

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the cams j, the bar q, the lever 70, the slides ffff,and the jointed beam (1, the whole constructed and arrangedsubstantially as herein set forth.

HENRY UPJOHN.

Witnesses:

G. S. PEoK, GEO. W. WooD.

